MP3 Tag Writing Problems - Permissions?

[jdorenbush]

I'd still like to get to the bottom of this problem in Rhythmbox - any ideas?

[aheckler]

SomeGayDude was very close to the actual problem. It's not a permissions thing, it's a tags thing. Rhythmbox reads APE tags first, then ID3 tags. When you try to change the tags from within Rhythmbox, it only changes the ID3 kind, so what is displayed reverts back to the APE tag a few seconds later.

You need to download an app called EasyTAG (in the repos) and remove all APE tags from your files. They should then work as expected.

[aheckler]

Actually, a simpler way to remove APE tags can be found here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=292111

[jdorenbush]

Actually, a simpler way to remove APE tags can be found here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=292111

apetag won't work on 64-bit.

I don't see any options to edit/remove APE tags within EasyTAG.

[aheckler]

Go here: http://rarewares.org/debian/packages/unstable/

Download this: apetag_1.7-0.1_i386.deb

You will need the package "libstdc++5" installed first, so:

sudo apt-get install libstdc++5

(There may be other dependencies, but libstdc++5 was the only one I needed.)

Then, in the directory with the apetag .deb file:

sudo dpkg --force-architecture -i apetag_1.7-0.1_i386.deb

Apetage will now be installed and functional. I just tested this on my 64-bit system, so you should be good to go.

[jdorenbush]

OK cool. Forcing it allowed it to install without any problems.

However...

$ apetag -i Ep 10 - Goldfrapp - Ooh La La.mp3 -m overwrite
E: could not open file

Also, I couldn't open my external harddrive files via apetag. I had to drag this file onto the Desktop to try and open it with apetag.

[aheckler]

If you have spaces in a filename, you have to enclose it in quotes, like this:

apetag -i "Ep 10 - Goldfrapp - Ooh La La.mp3" -m overwrite

That should work. I'm not sure about you external drive problem, that seems odd. Try either putting the path in as part of the filename, like so:

apetag -i "/path/to/drive/music/foler/Ep 10 - Goldfrapp - Ooh La La.mp3" -m overwrite

Or try changing directories to your external and running apetag from there.

cd /path/to/external/drive/music/folder
apetag -i "Ep 10 - Goldfrapp - Ooh La La.mp3" -m overwrite

Or maybe you already tried doing it those ways?

[jdorenbush]

Hmm, still getting that error - even after putting it in quotes.

[aheckler]

Try using sudo:

sudo apetag -i "Ep 10 - Goldfrapp - Ooh La La.mp3" -m overwrite

[jdorenbush]

Try using sudo:

sudo apetag -i "Ep 10 - Goldfrapp - Ooh La La.mp3" -m overwrite

Same error message. Weird.

I gave up on it. I am back to Songbird - problem free. The problem only exists in Rythmbox, which sucks, because that is the media player I wanted to use. Oh well.